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Immigration Issue To Play Key Role In Campaign

You might have had a three day weekend to celebrate our country’s independence, but the border crisis hasn’t let up, and politicians didn’t take any time off from pointing the finger of blame at each other. And the experts say that won’t change until Election Day.

Department of Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson told NBC's Meet the Press they will get a handle on securing the border.

“We have to do right by the children. I have personally encountered enough of them to know that we have to do right by the children. But, at the end of the day, in the final analysis, our border is not open to illegal migration. And we will stem the tide,” Johnson said.

Johnson says that officials are doing what they can to ease the crisis at the Texas-Mexico border.

"We will stem this tide. We are doing a number of things to do that. With regards to the adult population, who are coming here without their kids, we have dramatically reduced the turnaround time from something like 33 days down to four days,” Johnson explained.